Poker Lifestyle

888poker has presented its new festival offering called 888Live Festivals. The latter is set to start in London in October and is being promoted by the brand as larger, better and very different from any other live poker event to date. The 888Live London Festival is to be hosted by the brand’s Ambassador Kara Scott. It is to continue for a period of 11 days – from October 11th to October 23rd after kicking off at the Aspers Casino in London. The prize pools offered at the new festival are…

The American professional poker player Phil Galfond, known for his preference for high-stakes games, has made an official announcement that he is to establish an online poker website which will allow real-money play. The new poker brand will be opened up via Galfond’s own training site called RunItOnce.com. Galfond is one of the most popular high-roller players to date. Over the last decade, he has been known for generating overall earnings as both a professional and a trainer through his current website. In addition, more than $2 million have been…

All poker players who reside in the UK and Ireland would be provided with a great number of choices when it comes to live poker tournaments in September 2016. No matter if they are a resident of England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland, they will be able to make their choice from a number of opportunities this month. The first tournament, which already started yesterday and will end on September 4th, is the UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Super Series that is taking place at the Hippodrome Casino in London.…

The Danish professional poker player Gus Hansen has returned to his online poker play career after a 19-month pause. The 42-year-old player, who is also known under the nickname the Great Dane, decided to make a break after having a net loss of about $21 million on Full Tilt Poker over the 8-year duration of his career. Previously, Hansen used to be a regular high roller and was known as a Full Tilt ambassador. However, he became notorious for his accumulated losses that totalled almost $21 million. He has been…

The US poker player Julian Sacks succeeded in winning his first major victory in a live poker tournament so far. Sacks won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit at Foxwoods $1,675 Main Event at Foxwood and was granted with his first Circuit Ring and a cash prize of $148,350. Apart from the first-place money prize and the Circuit Ring, Sacks also got a free entry into the WSOP Global Casino Championship in 2017, which is expected to feature a prize pool of no less than $1,000,000. In the past,…

Young Polish poker player Sebastian Malec managed to win the latest EPT Main Event that took place in Barcelona. The youngster faced Uri Reichtenstein heads-up and took home a prize of €1,122,800 after surviving a dramatic battle with him. This was the player’s debut to the big poker scene, marking his largest victory so far, after outlasting a field of 1,785 entries. The players who took part in the event accumulated a prize pool of about €9 million distributed to the players who finished in the top 359 places. Apart…

At the latest update of the Global Poker Index (GPI) ranking, Steve O’Dwyer occupied the fifth place, following Fedor Holz, Nick Petrangelo and Byron Kaverman, who currently occupy the first, second and third position respectively. Jason Mercier, on the other hand, occupies the fourth place, but holds a very small lead on O’Dwyer. The 32-year-old US player has managed to generate all-time earnings of $15,779,659. His live best cash is estimated to $1,872,580 to date. The player took part in several poker tournaments and events in 2016. Most recently, he…

Connor Drinan won the EPT Barcelona High-Roller event and took home a prize of €849,200. The 2016 EPT Season saw a record-breaking €10,300 Buy-in High Roller Event which final day was brought to an end after almost 14 hours. The event attracted a player field of 591 entrants, only 36 of which made it to the third day tables. The final day started with Julian Stuer as chip leader, with Ilkin Amirov right behind his back. Still, at the end, it was Connor Dinan who won the competition, with Mihails…

US poker player Byron Kaverman maintained his third position in the latest Global Poker Index (GPI) update. He is ranked right after Fedor Holz who has been occupying the first place for eleven weeks now, and Nick Petrangelo, who got second. The 29-year-old Kaverman, who generated his first live-event cash eight years ago, has live bet earnings estimated to $727,860. His all-time earnings so far amount to $7,809,310. The US player, who lives in Ohio, had a wonderful performance over the first three years of his professional poker player career.…

Pratyush Buddiga won the €25,500 Single-Day High Roller of the 2016 EPT Season Barcelona and got home an award of €690,275 after he made a three-way deal with his last two opponents standing. He was not granted with the largest chunk of the prize pool, but he got the spade trophy for himself. Since one day turned out to be not enough for last year’s tournament with a total player field of 152 entries, the 2016 edition of the €25,500 Single-Day High Roller started early in the morning. All participants…